Works on paper from the Hauser & Wirth Collection
The exhibition "(In Search of) The Perfect Lover” is showing a larger corpus of works on paper, which for conservatory reasons can not be exhibited in the museum of the collection – a former locomotive shed in St. Gallen. With this external exhibitions some substantial aspects of the Hauser & Wirth Collection are presented to a larger audience.

The connection between body, sexuality/erotic and creativity and the conflict potential contained in these terms and their correlation will be questioned by these works of art.

The fragility of the medium drawing – as a non-physical medium (rather a medium of thought) reflects the topic in an obvious way: the drawing itself is an engraving and a registration on a surface and at the same time a tender flowing of line and violation, which goes under the skin, often hardly perceptible trace in the manipulated surface (in the psyche). Sexuality serves as a metaphor for the creative impulse, tries to express itself in metamorphotic double-pictures and unhampered stile that tries not to hide the close connection to violence and death.

The exhibition presents works of art of Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Raymond Pettibon and Paul McCarthy. Focussing these topics of creativity they have an important value for the collection. Apart from these works on paper sculptures and installations of Bourgeois and McCarthy are shown at the exhibition.

Works on paper from the Hauser & Wirth Collection
The exhibition "(In Search of) The Perfect Lover” is showing a larger corpus of works on paper, which for conservatory reasons can not be exhibited in the museum of the collection – a former locomotive shed in St. Gallen. With this external exhibitions some substantial aspects of the Hauser & Wirth Collection are presented to a larger audience.

The connection between body, sexuality/erotic and creativity and the conflict potential contained in these terms and their correlation will be questioned by these works of art.

The fragility of the medium drawing – as a non-physical medium (rather a medium of thought) reflects the topic in an obvious way: the drawing itself is an engraving and a registration on a surface and at the same time a tender flowing of line and violation, which goes under the skin, often hardly perceptible trace in the manipulated surface (in the psyche). Sexuality serves as a metaphor for the creative impulse, tries to express itself in metamorphotic double-pictures and unhampered stile that tries not to hide the close connection to violence and death.

The exhibition presents works of art of Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Raymond Pettibon and Paul McCarthy. Focussing these topics of creativity they have an important value for the collection. Apart from these works on paper sculptures and installations of Bourgeois and McCarthy are shown at the exhibition.